BEHIND THE SCENES AT TUMBLEWHEEL STUDIOS

Tumblewheel Studios is a 2001 Bluebird School Bus that wife and husband duo, Jenna Reineking and Nick Patton, turned into a mobile art classroom/maker space. With their nonprofit, they bring artist workshops to Northwest Oregon, in an effort to expand arts education throughout the area.

JENNA REINEKING

​Jenna Reineking is a Montana born sculptor and installation artist currently living in Scappoose, OR. She received a Bachelors in Fine Art with emphasis in Printmaking from Montana State University Bozeman, and Masters in Fine Art in Visual Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Reineking’s latest work focuses on questioning the familiar; asking the viewer to reexamine, reconsider, and ultimately reconstruct the way they perceive everyday objects.

Her work has been exhibited at the Yellowstone Art Museum, Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, PAGE Space, and Holt Galleries. In 2016, Reineking created a public work in the Portland Building for the Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant. She is a recipient of the CSA Artist Fellowship, as well as a Caldera Arts Residency. Her work has been reviewed in the Willamette Week, the Billings Gazette, The Jackson Hole News & Guide, and Planet Jackson Hole.

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NICK PATTON

Nick Patton is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Portland, OR. He received his BFA in Illustration from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH, and his MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. By day, Nick serves as the shop manager for Pacific Northwest College of Art's sculpture facilities where he assists students in solving creative problems while working in a variety of techniques and mediums.

Patton’s sculptures manifest as lumpy and distorted caricatures of their real-life counterparts. The work is blatantly smothered in thick, gooey layers of concrete, spray foam, and paint that seem to bubble and undulate with hidden life. Slap-stick humor and fatalistic, absurdist notions are made tangible through garish colors, abrasive, undulating textures, and pathetic, misshapen forms complete with drooping appendages and bulbous growths that seem on the verge of bursting. The twisted, abject, and cartoonishly abstracted forms he crafts suggest that something is not quite right about them. Patton intends for the viewer to carry this feeling of disquiet through the humorous façade to a place where the imagery becomes a metaphorical bridge towards themes of social, economic, and political turmoil.

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ART CAT GUS                                                                                                     BUS DOG LOU

AND... THEIR WORK.

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